\'OL. XII. NO. 1. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



EXHIBITION AT THE MASS. HORT. SOC. 

 ROOMS. 



Saturday, July 13, 1833. 



Fruits Exhibited were of a good quality and 

 of choice kinds. 



From Messrs. Winships, Currants of thir- 

 teen kinds — No. 1. White Antwerp ; 2. Red, do. ; 

 3. Rose colored, do.; 4.' Spanish white, very large ; 

 5. White Champagne ; 6. Wilmot's red. Seedling; 

 7. Brown's white Seedling; 8. New white, largest 

 clusters and berries; 9. Grizley ; 10. New red 

 crape; 11. Morgan's red Seedling; 12. Black 

 Naples ; 13. Black English grape. All recently 

 imported by them, and chiefly of new varieties, 

 and of extraordinary size and beauty; grown in 

 the Nursery under common cultivation. 



Cherries. By Dr. L. Ward, Roxbury, very 

 fine native Cherries. By Dr. L. B. Adams, Biga- 

 reau, Harvey Heart Cherries. 



By Mr. Sparhawk, Brighton, American white 

 Raspberry, wanting in flavor. 



By Mr. W. AVhitmarsh, Brookline, 3 bunches 

 white Chasselas Grapes ; one bunch weighed 9 oz. 



By Thomas Mason, Charlestown, fair grapes, 

 not quite ripe. 



Gooseberries. S. Walker, Lady of the Ma- 

 nor; Waiting Maid ; White Smith ; White Eagle ; 

 Medal ; Sir John Calgrove ; Crown Bob ; Hunts- 

 man ; Thrasher ; Lancaster Lad, weighed 12 pen- 

 nyweights, 13 grains ; Top Sawyers ; Roaring 

 Lion ; Elijah ; Saviuing, 6 weighed 3 oz. 16 pen- 

 nyweights ; Angler ; Hero ; Golden Lion. 



John A. Kenrick, Newton ; Gooseberries ; 

 Green Mountain ; Roaring Lion ; Bangup, 6 

 weighed 2 oz. 16 pennyweights, 9 grains. 



Mr. Abel Hodghton, Lynn, yellow walnut 

 Gooseberry, of excellent flavor. 



Our season for fruit is approaching, and as 

 there is a prospect of large crops and, new varie- 

 ties, it is hoped that all rare kinds and good spe- 

 cimens will be presented at the Hall, with the 

 names, by the cultivators. Cards will be in the 

 hands of the Librarian, so that each individual 

 can label his own fruit, which will prevent mistakes 

 and confusion. 



In behalf of the Committee, S. A. Shurtleff. 



Messrs. Z. Cooke, E. Vose and T. G. Fessen- 

 den, were a Committee to choose an Orator for 

 the next Annual Celebration of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society. 



From S. Walker, Roxbury, Hyrenthrum por- 

 thenium pi., Carnations and Picotees, Campanu- 

 la alba plena, Verbascum, &c. &c. 



Thomas Mason, Charlestown Vinevard, Dah- 

 lies varieties, Carnations and Herbaceous plants. 



Mr. Hovey, Cambridgeport,some fine specimens. 



R. Ward, Roxbury, flowers, one kind of 

 which, the Echinops sphcerocephalum attracted 

 much attention. 



Messrs. Winship, Pinks, Carnations, &c. 



Per order, Jon. Winship. 



Cholera. The Lexington (Ky.) Gazette of the 

 22d June, contains the names of the individuals 

 ascertained to have died of the Cholera. There 

 have been about 400 deaths, and the population of 

 Lexington is about 6000 ; consequently the deaths 

 have been one to every fifteen of the population. 

 Business of all kinds appears to have been sus- 

 pended, and for two weeks no paper was issued 

 from the office of the Gazette. 



LOCUST TREES ON LOSG ISLAND. 



For some ten or twenty years past the atten- 

 tion to this valuable tree has been constantly in- 

 creasing in many parts of the Island. It is now 

 quite common to see them not only occupying the 

 lanes, avenues and yards, about the residences and 

 out-buildings, but whole fields. They are propa- 

 gated in various ways, but generally by ploughing 

 among them, thus causing them to sprout from 

 the broken roots. Some farmers begin to sow the 

 seed, and cultivate them with corn and other 

 crops that require the ground to be enriched and 

 frequently stirred. In the spring, while in bloom, 

 the air is literally fragrant with their perfume. 

 From locust trees alone the value of property on 

 the Island is increasing, and will continue to in- 

 crease. — JV. Y. Farmer. 



MANURE IS 'WEALTH. 



In our intercourse with some of the farmers re- 

 siding within forty or fifty miles from New- York, 

 on Long Island, we have been surprised at the in- 

 stances related to us of the profitableness of farm- 

 ing. Some farmers, known to have labored and 

 toiled hard, have continued yearly to fall in ar- 

 rears until they have commenced buying manure. 

 Fifty-six cents are given per carman load at the 

 landing, for the apparently worthless dirt swept 

 from the street. This applied at the rate of twenty 

 loads produces wealth. The very farmers who 

 could not obtain a living by using only manure 

 made on their farms, have, in a very few years, 

 not only freed their farms from incumbrances, but 

 purchased others in addition, and are now, from 

 the yearly profit of their farms, putting money out 

 at interest. If then it is found so profitable to 

 buy manure, and be at the various expenses attend- 

 ing the carting, bow very important' is it to give 

 special attention to increasing the quantity and 

 improving the quality of that made on the farm. 

 There is no question but that almost every farmer 

 can double the quantity of his domestic or yard 

 manure, without scarcely any additional expense. 

 It is thought too, that at least fifty per cent, of the 

 nutritive properties of yard manure are lost by 

 drenching of rain, excessive fermentations, and 

 injudicious application to soil. The more we 

 consider this subject the greater does it become in 

 importance, and justly regarded as the primary 

 object in farming. — •"V. Y. Farmer. 



From the Columlna Telescope. 

 SODA WATER. 



We know nothing that we can in this weather, 

 more appropriately offer to our readers than the 

 following method of preparing that very cheap, 

 healthy and refreshing drink, soda water. 



Take 20 grains of Tartaric acid : 25 graius of 

 super-carbonate of Soda : dissolve a lump of sugar, 

 on which you have poured one drop of oil of Lemon 

 in two wine glassfulls of water : add the Tartaric 

 acid: stir it till dissolved. Then dissolve the car- 

 bonate of soda in a like quantity of water, and pour 

 the two solutions quickly together; toss them off* 

 as rapidly as possible. 



Ice, or the coldest spring water, s necessary to 

 give the above form its most perfect success. We 

 would advise that the glasses be previously cooled. 

 Any other syrup may be used, that one prefers to 

 Lemon. 



Super-carbonate of Soda and Tartaric acid may 

 be bought, in Charlestown, for about $1,25 per lb. 

 This preparation is good ; and does not cost more 

 than one cent per glass. 



DOMESTIC SILK IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



When on an excursion to the country a few 

 days since, we found, much to our surprise and 

 gratification, that some of our female friends had 

 turned their attention to the culture of Silk, and 

 that many of them had made such progress in this 

 laudable experiment as already to have realized 

 considerable profit from the production of the raw 

 material, and manufacturing it into cloth. Mrs. 

 Patrick Calhoun, of this District, who, among her 

 other many excellent virtues, is remarkable for her 

 industry and attention to her matters of domestic 

 concernment, showed us, in a bouse she had fitted 

 up for the purpose, at least, we would say, one 

 hundred thousand silk worms, all healthy and 

 busily engaged, some of them in forming the co- 

 coon, and others fitting themselves for the produc- 

 tion of that valuable material. Mrs. Calhoun, who 

 had tried the experiment last year on a smaller 

 scale than she is doing the present, assured us that 

 she had no doubt, should no unforeseen accident 

 occur, she would be able to raise silk enough by 

 the latter end of August to manufacture more than 

 a hundred yards of cloth. 



We know two other ladies in this District, Mrs. 

 Covington and Mrs. Baskin, who have been simi- 

 larly engaged for several years, and we have seen 

 some pieces of silk cloth manufactured by them, 

 which, when worked up into clothes, makes a 

 beautiful and lasting dress. The cloth manufac- 

 tured by them sold at this place for $3 per yard, 

 and it is sought for with avidity, not only on ac- 

 count of its rarity, but also for its beauty, dura- 

 bility and cheapness. We hope that our ladies 

 will turn their attention to this interesting, profita- 

 ble, and laudable employment, and that we will 

 be pardoned by those whose names we have given 

 to the public, for having done so without their 

 permission. — Abbeville Whig. 



MECHANICAL INGENUITY 



Is certainly an attribute of the American man. 

 We have just seen a beautiful exemplification of it 

 in a pin-making machine, invented by Dr. John I. 

 Howe, of this city, who sails with it in a day or 

 two for England, there to procure a patent for it. 

 The model machine is small, beautifully made and 

 worked by hand. We saw it in operation ; and from 

 two sorts of wire with which it was fed — one stout 

 for the pin, the other fine which was twisted into 

 the head — we saw pins complete poured forth at 

 the rate of 40 and with the capability of 60, in a 

 minute. The pins are perfect in every thing but 

 the coloring, which, as in all cases of pin-making, 

 is imparted by a chemical wash afterwards. 



The machines now used for pin-making, only 

 make the pin, the bead being afterwards put on 

 by hand, to each separately. Here the head is 

 more firmly, uniformly and smoothly made, and 

 fastened on by mechanism. We cannot doubt that 

 this all but reasoning machine will well reward its 

 ingenious inventor. — JV. Y. Amer. 



The oldest member of Congress now living is 

 the Hon. Paine Wingate, of Stratham, N. H. He 

 was of the first Congress held in New York, un- 

 der Gen. Washington's administration — is the el- 

 dest living on Harvard College catalogue, having 

 graduated in 1758, 75 years ago. He married a 

 sister of Col. Pickering, whom he buried a few 

 years since. He still superintends his farm at the 

 age of 95 years, is an old school gentleman, and 

 wears his Revolution hat and ruffles. 



